Deployed well, both a robot tax and a universal basic income could fit comfortably into a redistributive agenda. But any policy embraced by the 1 percent deserves as much scrutiny as its richest backers. (GEOFF CADDICK/AFP/Getty Images) Now that he won’t be labor secretary, Andy Puzder will be free to keep running his fast food empire the way he likes: with low wages, rampant wage theft and sky-high rates of sexual harassment. Because humans do pesky things like complain and demand decent hours and collective bargaining rights, Puzder has toyed with the idea of replacing them with robots. As […]
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